Category: Gymnastics

late twist Tumbling drills

These encourage LATE twist.  AND good ROTATION.

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Layout Jaegers

A fantastic skill.

Easier from el-grip than undergrip as you can partly “inlocate” the shoulders before release.

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Heron on Floor

Performed at the 2024 FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo (EGY) by Hillary Heron (PAN)

Element description: Double salto backward in the tuck position with one and a half twists (540 degrees).

Element value: F (0.6)

Name awarded: The Heron

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Carly, Alicia, Aly compared

Three of the greatest tumblers and Beam workers all time.

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Adalsteinsdottir on Bars

Performed at the 2024 European Gymnastics Championships in Rimini (ITA) by Thelma Adalsteinsdottir (ISL)

Element description: Clear hip circle forward (Weiler) into salto forward straddled to hang on high bar (Comaneci salto)

Element value: E (0.5)

Name awarded: The Adalsteinsdottir

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Sayer on Bars

Old timers might call this a Piked Salto Down.

Performed at the 2024 Oceania Gymnastics Championships in Auckland (NZL) by Kate Sayer (AUS)

Element description: Clear pike circle backward on high bar with flight to clear support on low bar.

Element value: C (0.3)

Name awarded: The Sayer

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Gymnastics in Gaza

Wassim Naqqar, 11, snagged first place in gymnastics in the Palestinian territories before the war began.

But after being forced to flee northern Gaza in April as fighting escalated in the area, he left Palestine Club in Sheikh Redwan, where he would train in gymnastics, yoga and parkour, a sport that involves running, swinging and vaulting in urban spaces.

His favourite sport of the three? Gymnastics. But because the region is war-torn, he says he often winds up practising it on the rubble. …

WaPo (paywall) – This 11-year-old does gymnastics atop the rubble of Gaza as the war rages on

Father-son duo helping train around 60 kids in war-torn region, teaching them gymnastics and parkour